Science Clips, by the BBC, offers interactive science animations that can be manipulated by students in order to learn science content. Check out the "Plants, Animals, and the Local Environment" science clip that relates to this inquiry.

Living
Things: Families.If you didn't
find the answers to your classification questions, try searching Ask
A Scientist. If you still have questions, send them to Ask Living Things. Click on the icon above.

BrainPOP.com, an award-winning site, offers original animated movies that answer kids' questions about health, science, and technology. The site provides an interactive quiz while movies load. To visit the site and watch their two minute Scientific Method movie, click on the icon above. Note: This is a subscription site, but selected movies are available without a subscription.

eNature.comprovides an online field guide
to over 4800
North American plants and animals. Species accounts are from
the National
Audubon Society Field Guides, Nature Guides, and Regional
Guides. These
guides are published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. They can be
ordered online
at eNature or on the National Audubon Society website
(www.audobon.org).
eNature.com will supply additional information if you log in
and become
a member. Click on the icon to connect to
eNature.com.

Invention
FactoryLiving Things taps into
that natural curiosity and excitement by providing kindergarten and
first-grade children with the opportunity to explore and observe the
living things in the area around and near school. Click on the
icon above.

Videos (see web resources)

Schoolvideos.com provides quality
curriculum-coordinated educational videos to public and private
schools nationally and abroad. Each video is researched and evaluated
in the areas of subject matter, content and curriculum compatibility,
and all meet national and state curriculum standards. The two videos listed below compliment this inquiry.

Living and Nonliving Things is a video for K-2 students. It is twelve minutes in length and teaches classification of living and nonliving things including a student review.

Scientific Method is a video for K-3 students. It is eighteen minutes in length and teaches the steps of the scientific method including a student review.

CDs

Living
Thingsoffers an interactive exploration of sounds
of living things. Click on the link to visit the Cascoly CD
website.

Life
is Loopy, is a game involving the whole class, that
reinforces pupils' knowledge across many aspects of living things.
Click on icon to link to site.

Music

Science Explosion web site
provides the teacher with Sing the Science Standards, Vol. 1 and 2.
This site lists available songs that teach science standards for
grades K-8. Click on icon to link to site.

Am I Living by Carol Ogden is a primary song that helps children learn questioning techniques to classify things as living or nonliving.

Books

What is a Living
Thing by Bobbie D. Kalman allows children see
themselves as part of a non-living world of houses, schools and
televisions. This intriguing new book explains what a living thing is
so that children can make the connection between themselves and other
living things, including plants, animals, and insects. ISBN
0865058911

What is a
Scientist? by Barbara Lehn is a simple text and
photographs that depict children engaged in various activities that
make up the scientific process. ISBN
1588245365

What's Alive? by
Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld explains how to tell the difference
between living and nonliving things--an essential first skill in
scientific sorting and classifying--is explored with hands-on
activities and colorful diagrams. ISBN
0064451321

Each Living
Thing by Joanne Ryder celebrates the creatures of the
earth, from spiders dangling in their webs to owls hooting and
hunting out of sight, and asks that we respect and care for them. ISBN
0152018980

Living Things
by Adrienne Mason offers a number of easy educational
experiments for children to do on their own or with very limited
adult supervision.
ISBN
1550743937

The Salamander Room
by
Ann Mazer
follows the story of a little boy who finds a salamander and takes
him home. "Where will he sleep?" asks his mother. Her "inquiries are
answered with imaginative solutions that will be familiar to all
those who have tried to convince a parent to let them have a pet. ISBN
0679861874

Welcome to the River of
Grass by Jane Yolen describes
a perfect armchair tour through a surprisingly vast array of
wildlife in a swampy strip unlike any other place on earth.
ISBN
0399232214

Every Living Thing
by Cynthia Rylant includes twelve
stories in which animals change people's lives for the better.
ISBN
0689712634

Gray Rabbit's Odd One
Out by Alan Baker tells the story of a
rabbit who tidies up his room and sorts his belongings into groups of
like things as he searches for his favorite book.
ISBN 075345257X